Cincinnati Art Museum

Part 1 of my friend Meredith's wedding took place at the Holy Cross-Immaculata Church in Mt. Adams. For her reception, we scooted over to Eden Park to visit the Cincinnati Art Museum.

According to the ol' Wikipedia, ours is one of the oldest art museums in the US. I did not know that.

Meredith's cocktail hour took place in a little courtyard within the museum grounds... which, with the falling dusk, was incredibly pretty.

Meredith made her rounds with a huge smile and a glass of white wine. As it grew darker there were candles and lanterns lit. Picturesque.
Ultimately we were ushered inside of the museum proper for the reception dinner. This picture doesn't really capture how beautiful the setup was, with the tall museum staircase and all the marble work. Everything looked sophisticated and... well, very Meredith.

I'll have to re-visit the art museum to give it a proper review; none of the exhibits were open, though Dan and I half hoped they'd let us mill around in there. This museum is one of the places in Cincinnati that I do visit about once a year, so I'm sure we'll be back in no time.

Cincinnati Art Museum website: http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/

By the way: the Cincinnati Art Museum is free every day. Even the special exhibits, which is a recent development. No excuses not to check it out.

As You Like It; Eden Park

This is Tonks. (And Dan.) She's not mine. (He is.)

Tonks belongs to friends of Dan's. As I'm pretty desperate to have a dog of my own, I'd spent plenty of time beforehand planning a whole weekend of dog-friendly activities for Labor Day weekend, when we'd be Tonks-sitting.

The first one was a trip to the Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park to see Cincinnati Outdoor Shakespeare's production of As You Like It. Unfortunately, as far as the production goes, I can't tell you much. The 3 of us sat way in the back of the pavilion, so as not to bother other theater-goers. (The precaution was completely unnecessary; Tonks was an angel.) I couldn't hear much of the production, and I spent most of our time there pulling sticks from Tonks' mouth or telling friendly children that yes, you can pet her and no, she won't bite your face off. As far as I know.

But the Seasongood Pavilion was lovely, as was all of Eden Park. We had incredible weather and a few of the trees had started to turn toward autumn.

We spent a little time with Tonks at Mirror Lake afterwards... or we would have, but she wasn't havin' it. She was well-behaved, quiet and friendly... but had zero interest in that ramp and the empty pool it led into. Guess I can't blame her.

Thing I just learned about Eden Park: it was designed by landscape architect Adolf Strauch,who also designed Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery.